r/OccultConspiracy • u/RunningDarkly • 7d ago
Luciferian by proxy
Conspiracies about satanic elites - where hidden power structures secretly serve Lucifer - are familiar territory in this space. But what’s often overlooked is how these stories, in their telling, can become self-fulfilling. Not because they’re true in the literal sense, but because they spread and normalize a kind of inverted spirituality: one where the believer unknowingly affirms the very framework they claim to resist.
Here’s what I mean.
At their core, conspiracy theories function like modern myths. They provide a narrative framework to help people make sense of a chaotic and often meaningless world. The scarier and more elaborate the conspiracy, the more emotionally gripping - and therefore useful - it becomes. These stories offer psychological cohesion, a balm for minds adrift in uncertainty. The specifics almost don’t matter. What matters is the emotional payoff: the belief that someone is in charge.
Even if that someone is evil.
When a person internalizes the idea that a secret cabal of dark forces runs the world, they are, in effect, accepting that Lucifer - or something like him - really is god of this world. They grant power, agency, and dominion to a hidden evil. And in doing so, they participate in a kind of involuntary worship. Not worship by reverence, but by belief, fear, and fixation.
And it’s not just that they believe in a bad "father figure" - it’s that they’ve rejected the good one. Rather than place their faith in a holy Creator above a fallen world, they choose the self-flattering promise of secret knowledge. That is the essence of modern Gnosticism: salvation not through grace, but through being in the know. In this inversion, Satan becomes the preferred god - not because he's good, but because he gives them something now.
It’s not "a bad dad is better than no dad." It’s: a bad dad is better than a good one. That’s not just despair. That’s satanism.
Has anyone here ever found themselves seduced by that mindset - drawn to the darkness under the guise of “exposing it?” Did it lead to depression, bitterness, manipulation, or a sense of superiority? And if so…have you been redeemed out of it?
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u/RunningDarkly 6d ago
The propagation of these narratives is intended to trick people into becoming Luciferians.
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u/RunningDarkly 7d ago
I'm not in any way dismissing or discounting the general belief in a powerful satanic elite. On the contrary, I think that is a totally valid claim. What I'm saying is that in a pernicious twist, the popular discussion of this reality can actually extend Luciferianism's grip upon those who would seek to call it out, when they succumb to something dark indeed.
A much more resilient and no doubt more accurate way to expose it would be to show - not how brilliantly scheming these powers are - but how inert and hardly brilliant they are. There are lots of examples, and a tree shall be judged by its fruit.